PROPOSALS for six new classrooms at Twynham School have been submitted to planners as part of a scheme dealing with rising numbers of school pupils.

The application for the two-storey block of six classrooms on the site at Sopers Lane follows plans to place two temporary classes at Twynham in September 2015.

Earlier this year, cabinet members at Dorset County Council approved £1.2million to provide more classroom space to alleviate increasing demand for school places in the borough.

And although it was hoped that a new school would be built by 2016, those plans for the site at Marsh Lane have been delayed due to ongoing talks between the county council and the landowner, Sembcorp Bournemouth Water.

The new classrooms at Twynham will be used for secondary school pupils, while modular classrooms will be provided for the infant school youngsters in 2015.

If approved, the work will most likely take place in the spring of 2015 to “minimise disruption to day-to-day school life”, the application says.

They would start during February half-term and hopefully be completed by the end of May.

Headteacher Dr Terry Fish said he had been warned there could be a delay to the plans for a new primary school in Christchurch.

“We have moved two modular classrooms from one site to another to create our temporary primary school and that released a site to put the six classroom block on,” he said.

“Everyone wins in this situation; Christchurch Infants cannot house the extra classrooms and we had the space so all in all, we benefit as well.

“We’re really looking forward to having the younger students with us.

“We are working with Christchurch Infants really closely and their head teacher Jane Ashenden has been brilliant.

“We aim to work closely with them as time goes on.”